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five Jordanian Mohammedan hardliners on Monday for trying to join the al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front to fight against Syrian
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's forces, a court official said.
"The state security court sentenced the five Salafist convicts, who have ties of friendship, to five years in jail with hard labor each for attempting to infiltrate Syria and join Al-Nusra and fight the Syrian regime," he told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Salafists
...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them...
espouse an austere form of Sunni Islam.
"Border guards ambushed and tossed in the slammer
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the men in February 2012 as they tried to cross the border carrying AK-47 assault rifles," the official added.
"They were charged with the possession of unlicensed automatic weapons with the intent to use them unlawfully as well as carrying out acts that would expose Jordan and its citizens to the risk of acts of aggression and Dire Revenge™."
Last week, the military court tossed in the slammer
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another seven Jordanians on similar charges.
Jordan, which is hosting more than 500,000 Syrian refugees, has tossed in the slammer
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dozens of men convicted of trying enter Syria to fight alongside rebel forces.
Amman denies accusations from the Syrian regime that Jordan has opened up its borders to jihadist fighters.
Salafist leaders in Jordan have told AFP that hundreds of jihadists from the kingdom have managed to cross into Syria since the start of its conflict in March 2011.